{"id":214726,"date":"2025-11-24T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-can-africa-bolster-its-bargaining-power-at-the-eu-au-summit\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:18:56","slug":"africa-can-africa-bolster-its-bargaining-power-at-the-eu-au-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-can-africa-bolster-its-bargaining-power-at-the-eu-au-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Can Africa Bolster Its Bargaining Power At the EU-AU Summit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">At this week&#8217;s Luanda summit, several thorny issues relating to the security partnership must be confronted head-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">On 24 and 25 November, leaders from 82 member states of the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU), two of the world&#8217;s largest geopolitical blocs, will converge in Angola&#8217;s capital Luanda for the seventh EU-AU Summit. The event marks 25 years since the inaugural summit in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">The partnership spans trade, climate, development and health, but it is the vital peace and security&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240567.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this week&#8217;s Luanda summit, several thorny issues relating to the security partnership must be confronted head-on. On 24 and 25 November, leaders from 82 member states of the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU), two of the world&#8217;s largest geopolitical blocs, will converge in Angola&#8217;s capital Luanda for the seventh EU-AU Summit. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00121140:8824c395ed212f473525bb96bfefa5b0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,20971,18335,16910,257,7047,254,5757],"class_list":["post-214726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-bargaining","tag-bolster","tag-euau","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00121140:8824c395ed212f473525bb96bfefa5b0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}